Publications
Anticipating El Niño: A mitigation, preparedness and response plan
09/2023
FAO’s El Niño Mitigation, Preparedness and Response Plan is an urgent appeal to be implemented in close collaboration with government partners and other humanitarian actors in Somalia.
Somalia: Project Highlights - OSRO/SOM/204/USA
09/2023
The Government of the United States of America contributed USD 600 000 to the FAO project, "Improving flood and drought risk management in Somalia – SWALIM", which as implemented from 1 January 2022 to 30 June 2023.
Somalia: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 6
09/2023
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a sixth-round assessment conducted in June and July 2023 in Somalia.
Somalia: Humanitarian Response Plan 2023
05/2023
Somalia has endured poor rains since 2020, alongside exceptionally high food prices, conflict, disease outbreaks and other hardships.
Project brief: Greening the humanitarian response in displacement settings
04/2023
The scale and protracted nature of displacement today highlights more than ever the need to integrate environmental preparedness and response in humanitarian interventions.
Somalia: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 5
03/2023
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a fifth-round assessment conducted between December 2022 and January 2023 in Somalia.
Somalia: Project Highlights - OSRO/SOM/106/USA
02/2023
The Government of the United States of America contributed USD 22.5 million to the FAO project, "Improved food security and livelihood recovery in Somalia".
Somalia: Project Highlights - OSRO/SOM/104/JPN
02/2023
Maritime security and youth empowerment in Somali fisheries.
Somalia – Strengthening the resilience of rural communities through conflict-sensitive programming: Translating context analysis and conflict-sensitive recommendations into adjustment in project implementation in Lower Shabelle region
12/2022
This learning brief documents learning around promising programme approaches that can support decision-making and resource allocation processes towards durable solutions to food crises.
Monitoring food security in food crisis countries with conflict situations
12/2022
This report provides an update on the acute food insecurity in countries and territories that have the world’s highest burden of people in need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance as a result of protracted conflict combined with other factors.
Enhancing nutrition in emergency and resilience agriculture responses to prevent child wasting: FAO's child wasting prevention action plan (2023–2024)
11/2022
As part of the United Nations Global Action Plan on Child Wasting, FAO requires USD 500 million to implement its action plan to prevent child wasting (2023–2024) in the 15 most-affected countries.
Somalia Famine Prevention Scale-up Plan: May 2022 – June 2023
11/2022
FAO’s scaled-up Famine Prevention Plan seeks to reach extremely vulnerable rural communities in areas at high risk of famine to avert further catastrophe and stem the rapidly rising numbers of persons displaced due to the prolonged drought. Deaths due to hunger, malnutrition and related diseases are on the rise.
Contribution from the Government of Sweden to FAO: Annual report 2021
10/2022
In 2021, the Government of Sweden, through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), contributed SEK 94 million (USD 11.08 million) to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) emergency and resilience programme.
Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity (October 2022 to January 2023 Outlook)
09/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 19 countries or situations – called hunger hotspots – during the outlook period from October 2022 to January 2023.
Somalia: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 4
08/2022
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a fourth-round field assessment conducted between April and May 2022 in Somalia.
Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA): Annual Report 2021
07/2022
This annual report provides a brief description of the major operations initiated with the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) for the 12-month period ending 31 December 2021. The report contains financial data for this period, as well as data since the Fund became operational.
Drought in the Horn of Africa: Revised rapid response and mitigation plan to avert a humanitarian catastrophe (January–December 2022)
06/2022
The Horn of Africa is facing the third severe La Niña‑induced drought episode in a decade, and the region is on the verge of a catastrophe if humanitarian assistance is not urgently scaled up and sustained.
Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity: June to September 2022 Outlook
06/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 20 countries or situations (including two regional clusters) – called hunger hotspots – during the outlook period from June to September 2022.
The 2020–2021 desert locust upsurge: How anticipatory action prevented a full blown humanitarian crisis
05/2022
In late 2019, a massive outbreak of desert locusts swept across the greater Horn of Africa and Yemen. This infographic outlines the actions FAO and partners took to avert a disaster, and showcases the impacts and results of the early, scaled up action.
Desert locust upsurge: Progress report on the response in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen, September–December 2021
05/2022
This sixth and final progress report details FAO’s work to mitigate the effects of the desert locust upsurge – an unprecedented threat to food security and livelihoods – across the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen between September and December 2021, while outlining the outcomes of the response in all of 2021.